Automated cleaning assembly

ABSTRACT

The present invention relating to an automated cleaning assembly for washing cup, dish and container, and mixing or stirring is provided. The automated cleaning assembly comprises a grasp portion and a driven gear. The grasp portion has a driving portion disposed inside the grasp portion. The driving portion has an unidirectional gear engaging to a sawtooth bar, in which the sawtooth bar connects to a press bar and the bottom side of the press bar connecting to the lower edge of the grasp portion. The sawtooth bar has a space to contain a spring so that the spring pushes a pole of the grasp portion, wherein the spring pushes the sawtooth bar to return by the driven force of the press bar. In this manner, a brush can be rotated by the automated cleaning assembly without battery or power supply.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to an automated cleaning assembly, particularly to an automated cleaning assembly pressed by a press bar so as to drive the brush to rotate for the purposes of washing cup, dish, and container, and mixing or stirring.

2. Description of the Prior Art

People who wash cups, dishes or containers normally utilize a cleaning assembly with a grasp portion connecting to a brush, so that he/she may rotate the grasp portion to drive the brush to rotate by manual labor, and therefore the cups, dishes or containers is cleaned. This is absolutely troublesome and inconvenient. Some sold cleaning assembly may equipped with battery or grid power to automatize the brush instead of barehanded, however, that may not meet the requirement of the environment protection.

So how to conveniently clean the cups, dishes or containers without any battery or grid power is a critical issue needed to be settled.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The primary object of present invention is to have a automated cleaning assembly washing cups, dishes or containers by pressing a press bar, so as to rotate the brush, without any battery or grid power supply, so that the goal for environment protection is achieved.

To achieve the foregoing and other objects, an automated cleaning assembly for washing cup, dish, container and mixing or stirring is provided. The automated cleaning assembly comprises a grasp portion and a driven gear. The grasp portion has a driving portion disposed inside the grasp portion. The driving portion has an unidirectional gear engaging to a sawtooth bar, in which the sawtooth bar connects to a press bar and the bottom side of the press bar connecting to the lower edge of the grasp portion. The sawtooth bar has a space to contain a spring so that the spring pushes a pole of the grasp portion, wherein the spring pushes the sawtooth bar to return by the driven force of the press bar. The driven gear engages to a transmission gear, in which the transmission gear is pivotally connected to a holding element. The holding element supports for either a brush or a mixer to rotate, wherein the sawtooth bar drives the unidirectional gear to rotate, so as to further drive the driven gear and the transmission gear to rotate. In this manner, the brush or the mixer is rotated by the rotation of the transmission gear.

In one preferable embodiment of the automated cleaning assembly, wherein the unidirectional gear has a position hole passing through a fixing bar of the grasp portion, so that the unidirectional gear slides along with the fixing bar to selectively engage with the driven gear when the sawtooth bar is repeatedly moved.

Whereby, people is able to conveniently clean the cups, dishes, containers or stirring without any battery or grid power

The foregoing, as well as additional objects, features and advantages of the invention will be more readily apparent from the following detailed description, which proceeds with reference to the accompanying drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is schematic diagram of the automated cleaning assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is cross sectional diagram of the automated cleaning assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is schematic diagram of the driving portion of the automated cleaning assembly;

FIG. 4 and FIG. 5 are operation diagrams of the driving portion of the automated cleaning assembly.

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Referring to FIG. 1 to FIG. 3, FIG. 1 is schematic diagram of the automated cleaning assembly of the present invention; FIG. 2 is cross sectional diagram of the automated cleaning assembly of the present invention; FIG. 3 is schematic diagram of the driving portion of the automated cleaning assembly. As shown in FIG. 1 to FIG. 3, the automated cleaning assembly comprises a grasp portion 1 and a driving portion 2 disposed inside the grasp portion 1; moreover, the automated cleaning assembly may further has brush 3, 4 or mixer 5 which has distinct configurations and all can be selectively matched up with the automated cleaning assembly. The brush 4 can be sponge wiper in this embodiment. The driving portion 2 has an unidirectional gear 21 and the unidirectional gear 21 has a position hole 211 passing through a fixing bar 212 of the grasp portion 1. The unidirectional gear 21 engages to a sawtooth bar 22, and the sawtooth bar 22 connects to a press bar 23. The bottom side of the press bar 23 connects to the lower edge of the grasp portion 1. The sawtooth bar 22 has a space (unmarked) to contain a spring 24, so that the spring 24 may push a pole 25 of the grasp portion 1. In this manner, the spring 24 may push the sawtooth bar 22 to return by the driven force of the press bar 23.

The automated cleaning assembly also has a driven gear 26 engaged to a transmission gear 27, in which the transmission gear 27 is pivotally connected to a holding element 28. The holding element 28 supports for a brush 3, 4 or a mixer 5 to rotate.

In this manner, the sawtooth bar 22 may drive the unidirectional gear 21 to rotate and selectively match with the driven gear 26; therefore the driven gear 26 and the transmission gear 27 may be driven to rotate by the unidirectional gear 21. And eventually the brush 3, 4 or the mixer 5 may be rotated by the rotation of the transmission gear 27 and by the support of the holding element 28. Hence the cups, dishes and containers can be conveniently washed without any battery or grid power supply, so that the goal for environment protection is achieved.

Simultaneously referring to FIG. 1 and FIGS. 4 and 5, FIG. 4˜FIG. 5 are operation diagram of the driving portion of the automated cleaning assembly. When the brush 3 is adapted to the automated cleaning assembly and supported by the holding element 28, the driven gear 26 and the transmission gear 27 may be driven to rotate by the unidirectional gear 21. When the press bar 23 is pressed, the sawtooth bar 22 drives the unidirectional gear 21 to rotate, and further urge the position hole 211 and the unidirectional gear 21 to slide along with the fixing bar 212. By the repeated movement of the sawtooth bar 22 and slide motion of the unidirectional gear 21, the unidirectional gear 21 may be selectively engage with the driven gear 26. In this manner, the unidirectional gear 21 may drives the driven gear 26 and the transmission gear 27 to rotate, and then further rotate the brush 3, so as to accommodate for the cleaning of the cups, dishes, containers or stirring.

After the press bar 23 is pressed, the spring 24 which is disposed between the sawtooth bar 22 and the pole 25 of the grasp portion 1 may pushes the press bar 23 to return to its original position (as demonstrated in FIG. 2). Meanwhile, the unidirectional gear 21 is departed from the driven gear 26, therefore the brush 3 is able to be kept in unidirectional rotation

Summarily, the automated cleaning assembly is equipped with driving portion 2 and retrievable press bar 23 to skillfully drive and rotate the brush 3, 4 or mixer 5, so as to wash the cups, dishes, containers or stirring. No battery or grid power is required any more, to meet the need of the environment protection.

While certain exemplary embodiments have been described and shown in the accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that such embodiments are merely illustrative of and not restrictive on the broad invention, and that this invention is not be limited to the specific constructions and arrangements shown and described, since various other modifications may occur to those ordinarily skilled in the art. 

I claim:
 1. An automated cleaning assembly for washing cup, dish, container and mixing or stirring, comprising: a grasp portion having a driving portion disposed inside the grasp portion, the driving portion having an unidirectional gear engaging to a sawtooth bar, the sawtooth bar connecting to a press bar and the bottom side of the press bar connecting to the lower edge of the grasp portion, the sawtooth bar having a space to contain a spring so that the spring push a pole of the grasp portion, wherein the spring pushes the sawtooth bar to return by the driven force of the press bar; and a driven gear engaging to a transmission gear, in which the transmission gear is pivotally connected to a holding element, the holding element supporting for either a brush or a mixer to rotate; wherein the sawtooth bar drives the unidirectional gear to rotate, so as to further drives the driven gear and the transmission gear to rotate, so that the brush or the mixer is rotated by the rotation of the transmission gear.
 2. The automated cleaning assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the unidirectional gear has a position hole passing through a fixing bar of the grasp portion, so that the unidirectional gear slides along with the fixing bar to selectively engage with the driven gear when the sawtooth bar is repeatedly moved. 